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telluride was super short without any significant steep sections IIRC. photo of colin bailey at telluride below. i shot in 2002 and remember getting this slide back (film rules...look at the sky), and thinking maybe i could do more of this MTB photo stuff. later that day a rider crashed, her bike flew up and hit me and broke the flash off my camera LOL. i think telluride '02 was in clappin yo' dome w/ snoopdogg and pharell song to the section. had that log whoop section. most DH racers did 4x too. crazy that was 22 years ago. sorry...

The town has multiple ski areas, some are tiny, but the one that I *think* the race is being held at is "Szyndzielnia – Bielsko-Biała." My best attempt at googling the ski resort says that the vertical drop is 590 meters, or 1935 feet. Now, based on the video, it looks like they're running the race on the lower lifts, not all the way from the top, but still my eyeballs tell me there's plenty of hill and plenty of grade to run a downhill track down to the village at the bottom. The dirt, rocks, and roots look great...

That bit about Frameworks customers offering their frames got me feeling stuff. Thank you, mountain bike people.

I dont have insta, so I for one, appreciate it.

Updates from Neko's story (lmk if I should stop posting these, don't want to clog the thread if y'all are on top of the latest)

I wonder if anyone ever accidentally tried to thread a BB in the rear triangle's hollow brace...

Asa would’ve been 12th in elite today. The top junior females had top 10 elite times. The new gen is scary fast.

The Vital shirt unironically is the coolest prize. Can you even buy that? lol

thanks all! glad you're stoked! we had a lot of people help make this happen and finally hyped to turn it on! remember, you can tweak your team until saturday night at 11pm PST, so that's after semi finals. go brave, make your picks and run or get crafty and see who's actually going to the show and adjust.

I know he is a total alien on the bike, very Nico like where he just does things not possible on a bike-that being said, the practice clips yesterday he looked out of this world....Love to watch him ride a bicycle.

Asa's first run. Track looks good, only 1 or 2 low speed sections the whole track. Few line choices

Rockshox did it before Fox were even on the scene in 2001! Thats the issue with the scene these days everyones to young to remember haha